Appendix A. Tables with parameter values and equations used for the physiologically structured population model of perch (Perca fluviatilis) and its resource. Click here for a pdf file of the appendix.
| TABLE A1. Model parameters for perch and its resource (Claessen et al. [2000], Persson et al. [2003;2004]). |
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TABLE A2. Model equations describing the individual-level model of perch with irreversible mass x and reversible mass y, and the dynamics of the unstructured resource population. The index i refers to perch cohorts, each cohort consisting of Ni individuals.  refers to time within the season. See also Eq. 1. |
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LITERATURE CITED
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Persson, L., A. M. de Roos, D. Claessen, P. Bystrom, J. Lovgren, S. Sjogren, R. Svanback, E. Wahlstrom, and E. Westman. 2003. Gigantic cannibals driving a whole-lake trophic cascade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100:4035–4039.
Persson, L., D. Claessen, A. M. de Roos, P. Bystrom, S. Sjogren, R. Svanback, E. Wahlstrom, and E. Westman. 2004. Cannibalism in a size-structured population-energy extraction and control. Ecological Monographs 74:135–157.